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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My name's Oliver Tree, and you're watching my exclusive most
requested I've asked anything Chat. Thanks to Romeo and iHeartRadio
for having me on tonight to talk about my new
song Miss You featuring Robin Schultz. Let's do it so.
Celeste from San Antonio, Texas asks if you weren't in
(00:23):
the music industry, where do you think you would be? Well,
the real answer is I would probably be working at
like a hot dog stand or an ice cream shop,
because I do love to eat. But my dream, and
especially right now while I'm doing music, even my true dream,
is to be directing and writing these feature films, so
I've just been writing them as my hobby. I just
(00:45):
finished my fourth screenplay for a feature film, and that's
where my heart is. That's what I would really want
to be doing. I'll probably would just be working some
horrible job, though realistically, I used to be a landscaper
and I'd have to pick up human theses. And I
don't really want to say too much more than that,
but I will say I probably, even as much as
(01:06):
I don't like doing music and I'm always trying to retire,
it's probably better than that last job. My next question
is from Mariella from Argentina, and she asked, how is
your disconnection process between one musical project and another? What
do you do after tour and before working on something new.
(01:29):
Short answer is I write screenplays. Any downtime I get,
I'll usually lock myself in a hotel room anywhere. Sometimes
it is in a place where you might not expect,
like I did a screenplay in a hotel in Utah.
I was there for my friend's wedding and it was
(01:49):
this Mormon hotel that was basically like the equivalent of
the Shining Hotel, and lock myself in there for like
twelve days and didn't see any humans. I was there
for the wedding. I had flown in from Egypt, and
I was actually writing in Egypt before that started. And
for example, I was just in Italy writing a different one.
I try to go to different places. I try to
(02:11):
go see cool places for inspiration, but you're really just
locked in some kind of hotel room or some kind
of place and you don't really see daylight. Thing is
you shut off the outside world and you dive into
the world in your head. And I always document the
room around me because by the end of the week
or the two week process of writing. There is garbage
piled up, there's tissue piles. It is like chaos whirlwind
(02:35):
and it's actually pretty crazy. It's like an art piece
in itself. My next question comes from Hillary and Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Does it take a lot of work to maintain your
current haircut? Answer is no short answer, But answer for
the actual haircut is yes, that's more involved. Right now,
I don't even own a comb. I'm starting to see
(02:57):
some dreadlocks in my hair. As far as the actual haircut, though,
that takes a lot of maintenance to get to the
right place. I have to direct these people because I
get different haircut people always, and even if I don't
have to remind them how to do it, and essentially
I have to remind them, Hey, you got to cut
it straight here, so it's not like this. I actually
have to start cutting it more like this so that
(03:18):
the front end is the longest. I have to get
it perfect. It's always lop sided. It's always, hey, can
you take more off this corner or this corner? And
then you got cow licks right in this section here
and here, which essentially make them bow out like this,
And I have to always ask them make sure it's
as straight as possible, and sometimes I'll have them actually
(03:38):
use a salad bowl on my head to get that
maintained perfectly straight, and then the rest of the hair
pretty much just does its own thing. A lot of
people think this is a wig. The answer is no,
I'm stuck like this. Unfortunately, this is my actual hair.
Moving forward. My next question is from Finn from Massania,
(03:59):
New York, and they're asking when will you release Lies?
Which I'm not exactly sure what they're referring to, because
I did release a song called Lies came out my
Mouth on the deluxe of my first album, Ugly is Beautiful,
which came out I believe in around May of twenty
(04:22):
twenty one. My calculations are correct, so short answer, you
might have missed it, buddy, but it came out. Next
question is from Kel's from Los Angeles. When will you
come to Mexico City with your own tour? We love
you all of your tacos loves you two okay for one.
I'm very confused because it says you're from Los Angeles
(04:44):
and now you're asking me about Mexico City. Short answer,
I love Mexico city. I've been there maybe four or
five times. I actually did a show there last year.
But I understand that you're saying a headline show, and
that was a festival even though I was headlining that stage,
and you stout because we put on quite an interesting
show there. It was an epic one. But I did
(05:05):
a little headline tour of Mexico last year. We had
a bunch of stops, and I would imagine that I'll
probably come back never because I'm never touring again. Oliver
Tree is done. This is the last album that I
had released was Cowboy Tears and my deluxe Cowboy Tears
Down the World in a swimming Pool of Sorrow. And
short answer, I will never tour again, except I have
(05:26):
one last show that will be at Red Rocks at
the Red Rocks Amphitheater, ten thousand kids. We sold this
thing out, except we didn't. We sold out half the
tickets on the on sale in thirty minutes and we
still have a few left. So if you want to
get one, it's going to be the most crazy, crazy,
crazy show ever. I've been working on the show for
a year and a half and that will be the
last final show. So answer probably won't ever see me
(05:50):
in Mexico City doing a headline show. It's over. Next
question is from Tanya from Cleveland, Ohio. Will Turbo returned someday?
Definitely not. I am done with music for good in Turbo.
I retired Turbo back in twenty twenty one. I believe
so yeah. I had a good run. Six years of
(06:10):
wearing the same outfit every single day. I got very
stinky and I can't do it. It's done. Next question
is from Brianna from Toronto, Ontario. Would you ever consider
going on a date with me? No, I don't see
what you look like. I have no idea, but I'm
getting stalker vibes. Next question Armin from Lesberg, Virginia. Are
(06:33):
you gonna play Lies at Red Rocks? All the fans
really want to hear the song? If they're referring to
the song Lies Came out of My Mouth, which was
released on the deluxe of Ugly is Beautiful, The answer
is no, I will never play that song. That song
is rubbish and I would never play that song. I
would never listen to that song. Next question is from
Brianna here again from Toronto, Ontario. Apparently there wasn't many
(06:58):
people who submitted questions. This question from this person second time,
only fans. When funny you ask, we actually put up
only fans. It's a feat pictures exclusively and yeah, that
is available if you type in Oliver Tree on only fans.
Next question from Megan from Minneanapolis, Minnesota. How big is
(07:20):
that Schmidt? I don't know who's screening the questions here.
This is a little bit of a personal question, but
to answer, I use the term fallicly challenged. I have
what's known as a micro penis, and it's approximately half
an inch and when fully erect, an inch. So I
don't really like to answer these personal type of questions,
(07:41):
but if you really must know, the Schmidt is anywhere
between a half inch to an inch. Next question moving forward,
Nathan from Los Angeles, California. What happened to the documentaries
after Cowboy Tears? They have slowed down and the latest
one was in twenty twenty one. Okay, tell you guys
the truth. I filmed so many documents that we couldn't
edit them in the speed and I just got over it.
(08:03):
I was like, this is too much work. And for one,
I never seen a penny on any of this stuff,
so it's very hard for me to be investing a
bunch of money. I took out a loan from the government,
which I've never spoken about, those one hundred thousand dollars
during COVID to start new businesses. I put that into
Alien Boy Films. We hired a bunch of editors. But
the thing is that the whole thing collapsed in on
itself because we didn't have the right structure. But we
(08:25):
kept filming them and I kind of just decided, hey,
it's going to be easier if I just let these
things come out and about five to ten years, which
some of them are already five years old. We have
one's filmed from many tours ago. I mean there was
one that I did opening for Hobo Johnson, another artist,
and we went around from America to Europe. That thing
was completely done, and we never released that because I
(08:46):
figured when you look at it up closer, like, well,
this is just content, But when you release it in
five to ten years, it starts to look like a
documentation of another period, and I think that's more special.
So I think these things are aging like fine wine.
And if I was to answer you, they may never
come out. But We've actually finished editing a bunch of them,
(09:09):
and there's a lot that haven't even started being edited.
But I think they'll come out in due time. We'll see.
We've got to find the right home for them. But
I think my dream is probably let them live on
YouTube and not make a penny on them, but just
make it so that kids in art classes can watch them.
I'd like a teacher in art school to show them.
That's my dream with these documentaries. I think they're very
special and very unique. Next question comes from Equals from Riverside, California.
(09:32):
I don't even think that's a real name. I'm starting
to think maybe these they're not real people. Maybe these
are either AI or bot generator questions. The question is
will you ever have another Meme museum pop up in
Los Angeles? I genuinely want to meet you again. Okay,
For one, the museum hemorrhage money. I lost approximately I
believe the numbers were six hundred thousand US dollars. Shout
(09:56):
out to Amazon Music for helping fund it. But I
lost a lot personal investment in that museum. It was
a huge failure. I did a meet and greet and
I had COVID at the time. I never disclosed that,
but I was in a bubble. I was in a
bubble that it was plastic, and I met with four
(10:17):
hundred fans, and I played a show that night for
five thousand people, and I had COVID, and that's the truth. Anyways,
I probably was not supposed to say that. My lady
Jeremiah Jeffrey is advised that I never speak about that,
but I figured you might as well know, and that
it's probably the last time I'll ever do a meet
and greet. I hate meeting greets. I love the fans.
I don't really like meeting people because it's a lot
(10:37):
of energy and I already give every bit of energy
I have to my art. And maybe there's a world
where I'll open up meet and greets two people who
are really willing to waste a lot of money, because
you'd have to pay a lot of money to make
that worth my time, because I'm stretched very thin with
everything I do, and my whole entire life is dedicated
to giving up my soul to art, and I'm not
(10:57):
sure if the best use of it is to meet
people one by one or if it's better for them
to meet me through the art pieces that I can
share with hundreds of millions of people, like my music
or other things. Next question is from Tiffany from San Diego, California.
What is your current lock screen? Oh? I wish I
could show you. I have two phones. One of them
is being used to record this and the other one
(11:18):
is nowhere to be found. But I have two phones,
two numbers. One of them I don't know the actual
number on it because I don't give that out to people.
It's for a very tight knit, close crew. The other one,
A lot of people ask me for my number and
it's hard for me to say no, so I have
a second number for those suckers. But I'll say this,
Having two phones is never a good idea. It makes
(11:40):
things very complicated, Like, for instance, right now, where's my
other phone? When I need it? Someone could be texting
me something important on that one, And then my other
phone is being used on this and someone could text
me something super important and I miss it as well.
So it's made things much more complicated, but makes it
easier for me to not be an asshole when people
ask for my number, even though sometimes I have to
say no. Other times, you never really know who you're
(12:03):
talking to, and it could be important to have short answer.
Lock screens are both two different paintings by my favorite painter,
Boskiyot and I used to have different backgrounds that made
it easier to discern which one was which. And then
my assistant he thought it would be funny if he
took pictures of these faces that he had morphed that
(12:26):
made it look like I had and I am heavy
set right now, I'm probably the heaviest I've ever been.
But he made me have even more chains and made
me look bigger using the face app and he thought
it would be funny to make both the lock screens
the exact same. And when you're on a date, it's
very embarrassing to have lock screens with your own face
on it, especially ones that are essentially morbidly obese. And
(12:48):
I changed them to Bosquiat paintings. Okay, moving forward the
next question. It is not a question, it's really just
a statement. And I just want to say thank you
guys for watching my most requested live Ask Anything chat.
I want to thank Romeo. Shout out to Romeo and
the crew. Appreciate you guys having me on tonight to
talk about my new song miss You featuring Robin Schultz,
(13:11):
Oliver Retreat signing out
My name's Oliver Tree, and you're watching my exclusive most
requested I've asked anything Chat. Thanks to Romeo and iHeartRadio
for having me on tonight to talk about my new
song Miss You featuring Robin Schultz. Let's do it so.
Celeste from San Antonio, Texas asks if you weren't in
(00:23):
the music industry, where do you think you would be? Well,
the real answer is I would probably be working at
like a hot dog stand or an ice cream shop,
because I do love to eat. But my dream, and
especially right now while I'm doing music, even my true dream,
is to be directing and writing these feature films, so
I've just been writing them as my hobby. I just
(00:45):
finished my fourth screenplay for a feature film, and that's
where my heart is. That's what I would really want
to be doing. I'll probably would just be working some
horrible job, though realistically, I used to be a landscaper
and I'd have to pick up human theses. And I
don't really want to say too much more than that,
but I will say I probably, even as much as
(01:06):
I don't like doing music and I'm always trying to retire,
it's probably better than that last job. My next question
is from Mariella from Argentina, and she asked, how is
your disconnection process between one musical project and another? What
do you do after tour and before working on something new.
(01:29):
Short answer is I write screenplays. Any downtime I get,
I'll usually lock myself in a hotel room anywhere. Sometimes
it is in a place where you might not expect,
like I did a screenplay in a hotel in Utah.
I was there for my friend's wedding and it was
(01:49):
this Mormon hotel that was basically like the equivalent of
the Shining Hotel, and lock myself in there for like
twelve days and didn't see any humans. I was there
for the wedding. I had flown in from Egypt, and
I was actually writing in Egypt before that started. And
for example, I was just in Italy writing a different one.
I try to go to different places. I try to
(02:11):
go see cool places for inspiration, but you're really just
locked in some kind of hotel room or some kind
of place and you don't really see daylight. Thing is
you shut off the outside world and you dive into
the world in your head. And I always document the
room around me because by the end of the week
or the two week process of writing. There is garbage
piled up, there's tissue piles. It is like chaos whirlwind
(02:35):
and it's actually pretty crazy. It's like an art piece
in itself. My next question comes from Hillary and Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Does it take a lot of work to maintain your
current haircut? Answer is no short answer, But answer for
the actual haircut is yes, that's more involved. Right now,
I don't even own a comb. I'm starting to see
(02:57):
some dreadlocks in my hair. As far as the actual haircut, though,
that takes a lot of maintenance to get to the
right place. I have to direct these people because I
get different haircut people always, and even if I don't
have to remind them how to do it, and essentially
I have to remind them, Hey, you got to cut
it straight here, so it's not like this. I actually
have to start cutting it more like this so that
(03:18):
the front end is the longest. I have to get
it perfect. It's always lop sided. It's always, hey, can
you take more off this corner or this corner? And
then you got cow licks right in this section here
and here, which essentially make them bow out like this,
And I have to always ask them make sure it's
as straight as possible, and sometimes I'll have them actually
(03:38):
use a salad bowl on my head to get that
maintained perfectly straight, and then the rest of the hair
pretty much just does its own thing. A lot of
people think this is a wig. The answer is no,
I'm stuck like this. Unfortunately, this is my actual hair.
Moving forward. My next question is from Finn from Massania,
(03:59):
New York, and they're asking when will you release Lies?
Which I'm not exactly sure what they're referring to, because
I did release a song called Lies came out my
Mouth on the deluxe of my first album, Ugly is Beautiful,
which came out I believe in around May of twenty
(04:22):
twenty one. My calculations are correct, so short answer, you
might have missed it, buddy, but it came out. Next
question is from Kel's from Los Angeles. When will you
come to Mexico City with your own tour? We love
you all of your tacos loves you two okay for one.
I'm very confused because it says you're from Los Angeles
(04:44):
and now you're asking me about Mexico City. Short answer,
I love Mexico city. I've been there maybe four or
five times. I actually did a show there last year.
But I understand that you're saying a headline show, and
that was a festival even though I was headlining that stage,
and you stout because we put on quite an interesting
show there. It was an epic one. But I did
(05:05):
a little headline tour of Mexico last year. We had
a bunch of stops, and I would imagine that I'll
probably come back never because I'm never touring again. Oliver
Tree is done. This is the last album that I
had released was Cowboy Tears and my deluxe Cowboy Tears
Down the World in a swimming Pool of Sorrow. And
short answer, I will never tour again, except I have
(05:26):
one last show that will be at Red Rocks at
the Red Rocks Amphitheater, ten thousand kids. We sold this
thing out, except we didn't. We sold out half the
tickets on the on sale in thirty minutes and we
still have a few left. So if you want to
get one, it's going to be the most crazy, crazy,
crazy show ever. I've been working on the show for
a year and a half and that will be the
last final show. So answer probably won't ever see me
(05:50):
in Mexico City doing a headline show. It's over. Next
question is from Tanya from Cleveland, Ohio. Will Turbo returned someday?
Definitely not. I am done with music for good in Turbo.
I retired Turbo back in twenty twenty one. I believe
so yeah. I had a good run. Six years of
(06:10):
wearing the same outfit every single day. I got very
stinky and I can't do it. It's done. Next question
is from Brianna from Toronto, Ontario. Would you ever consider
going on a date with me? No, I don't see
what you look like. I have no idea, but I'm
getting stalker vibes. Next question Armin from Lesberg, Virginia. Are
(06:33):
you gonna play Lies at Red Rocks? All the fans
really want to hear the song? If they're referring to
the song Lies Came out of My Mouth, which was
released on the deluxe of Ugly is Beautiful, The answer
is no, I will never play that song. That song
is rubbish and I would never play that song. I
would never listen to that song. Next question is from
Brianna here again from Toronto, Ontario. Apparently there wasn't many
(06:58):
people who submitted questions. This question from this person second time,
only fans. When funny you ask, we actually put up
only fans. It's a feat pictures exclusively and yeah, that
is available if you type in Oliver Tree on only fans.
Next question from Megan from Minneanapolis, Minnesota. How big is
(07:20):
that Schmidt? I don't know who's screening the questions here.
This is a little bit of a personal question, but
to answer, I use the term fallicly challenged. I have
what's known as a micro penis, and it's approximately half
an inch and when fully erect, an inch. So I
don't really like to answer these personal type of questions,
(07:41):
but if you really must know, the Schmidt is anywhere
between a half inch to an inch. Next question moving forward,
Nathan from Los Angeles, California. What happened to the documentaries
after Cowboy Tears? They have slowed down and the latest
one was in twenty twenty one. Okay, tell you guys
the truth. I filmed so many documents that we couldn't
edit them in the speed and I just got over it.
(08:03):
I was like, this is too much work. And for one,
I never seen a penny on any of this stuff,
so it's very hard for me to be investing a
bunch of money. I took out a loan from the government,
which I've never spoken about, those one hundred thousand dollars
during COVID to start new businesses. I put that into
Alien Boy Films. We hired a bunch of editors. But
the thing is that the whole thing collapsed in on
itself because we didn't have the right structure. But we
(08:25):
kept filming them and I kind of just decided, hey,
it's going to be easier if I just let these
things come out and about five to ten years, which
some of them are already five years old. We have
one's filmed from many tours ago. I mean there was
one that I did opening for Hobo Johnson, another artist,
and we went around from America to Europe. That thing
was completely done, and we never released that because I
(08:46):
figured when you look at it up closer, like, well,
this is just content, But when you release it in
five to ten years, it starts to look like a
documentation of another period, and I think that's more special.
So I think these things are aging like fine wine.
And if I was to answer you, they may never
come out. But We've actually finished editing a bunch of them,
(09:09):
and there's a lot that haven't even started being edited.
But I think they'll come out in due time. We'll see.
We've got to find the right home for them. But
I think my dream is probably let them live on
YouTube and not make a penny on them, but just
make it so that kids in art classes can watch them.
I'd like a teacher in art school to show them.
That's my dream with these documentaries. I think they're very
special and very unique. Next question comes from Equals from Riverside, California.
(09:32):
I don't even think that's a real name. I'm starting
to think maybe these they're not real people. Maybe these
are either AI or bot generator questions. The question is
will you ever have another Meme museum pop up in
Los Angeles? I genuinely want to meet you again. Okay,
For one, the museum hemorrhage money. I lost approximately I
believe the numbers were six hundred thousand US dollars. Shout
(09:56):
out to Amazon Music for helping fund it. But I
lost a lot personal investment in that museum. It was
a huge failure. I did a meet and greet and
I had COVID at the time. I never disclosed that,
but I was in a bubble. I was in a
bubble that it was plastic, and I met with four
(10:17):
hundred fans, and I played a show that night for
five thousand people, and I had COVID, and that's the truth. Anyways,
I probably was not supposed to say that. My lady
Jeremiah Jeffrey is advised that I never speak about that,
but I figured you might as well know, and that
it's probably the last time I'll ever do a meet
and greet. I hate meeting greets. I love the fans.
I don't really like meeting people because it's a lot
(10:37):
of energy and I already give every bit of energy
I have to my art. And maybe there's a world
where I'll open up meet and greets two people who
are really willing to waste a lot of money, because
you'd have to pay a lot of money to make
that worth my time, because I'm stretched very thin with
everything I do, and my whole entire life is dedicated
to giving up my soul to art, and I'm not
(10:57):
sure if the best use of it is to meet
people one by one or if it's better for them
to meet me through the art pieces that I can
share with hundreds of millions of people, like my music
or other things. Next question is from Tiffany from San Diego, California.
What is your current lock screen? Oh? I wish I
could show you. I have two phones. One of them
is being used to record this and the other one
(11:18):
is nowhere to be found. But I have two phones,
two numbers. One of them I don't know the actual
number on it because I don't give that out to people.
It's for a very tight knit, close crew. The other one,
A lot of people ask me for my number and
it's hard for me to say no, so I have
a second number for those suckers. But I'll say this,
Having two phones is never a good idea. It makes
(11:40):
things very complicated, Like, for instance, right now, where's my
other phone? When I need it? Someone could be texting
me something important on that one, And then my other
phone is being used on this and someone could text
me something super important and I miss it as well.
So it's made things much more complicated, but makes it
easier for me to not be an asshole when people
ask for my number, even though sometimes I have to
say no. Other times, you never really know who you're
(12:03):
talking to, and it could be important to have short answer.
Lock screens are both two different paintings by my favorite painter,
Boskiyot and I used to have different backgrounds that made
it easier to discern which one was which. And then
my assistant he thought it would be funny if he
took pictures of these faces that he had morphed that
(12:26):
made it look like I had and I am heavy
set right now, I'm probably the heaviest I've ever been.
But he made me have even more chains and made
me look bigger using the face app and he thought
it would be funny to make both the lock screens
the exact same. And when you're on a date, it's
very embarrassing to have lock screens with your own face
on it, especially ones that are essentially morbidly obese. And
(12:48):
I changed them to Bosquiat paintings. Okay, moving forward the
next question. It is not a question, it's really just
a statement. And I just want to say thank you
guys for watching my most requested live Ask Anything chat.
I want to thank Romeo. Shout out to Romeo and
the crew. Appreciate you guys having me on tonight to
talk about my new song miss You featuring Robin Schultz,
(13:11):
Oliver Retreat signing out
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